On today’s episode: How have COVID vaccines had lasting impact on menstrual cycles? Video games; do they rot your brain, or enhance it? What is the biological reason that women live longer than men? And how can sound help us understand protein folding? All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] Menstrual Cycle Changes Associated With COVID-19 Vaccine
• [ARTICLE] Study: Video Game Players Show Enhanced Brain Activity, Decision-Making Skill - Georgia State University News
• [ARTICLE] HOMEBIOLOGY NEWS New Study Reveals That Men Age Faster Than Women
• [ARTICLE] Illinois musicians, chemists use sound to better understand science

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On today’s episode: The world of bird jaw evolution has been rocked to its core. We’re going back to the moon! Let’s talk about the Artemis Program. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] Fossil overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds
• [RESOURCE] NASA - Artemis

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On today’s episode: Scientists have made a battery out of ocean water! Someday, you might be able to be vaccinated against addiction  All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] New device can make hydrogen when dunked in salt water
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  • An Immunconjugate Vaccine Alters Distribution and Reduces the Antinociceptive, Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Fentanyl in Male and Female Rats
  • Canada’s Opioid Crisis (fact sheet)
  • Opioid- and Stimulant-related Harms in Canada Published:(September 2022)

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  • https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2022-news-articles/november-2022/11142022-fentanyl-vaccine-haile-kosten.php 

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  • https://www.addictioncenter.com/news/2022/01/vaccine-against-addiction/ 

  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TA-CD 

  • https://www.fiercepharma.com/vaccines/a-vaccine-for-addiction-don-t-get-your-hopes-up-just-yet-expert

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On today’s episode: What’s that smell? It’s ancient humans, cooking fish! We talk about how whales evolved from land mammals back to the water. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] Earliest proof of cooking shows our ancestors liked well-done fish Oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food, researchers report -- ScienceDaily
• [ARTICLE] The evolution of whales from land to sea

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On today’s episode: Robots remember more things when they get a chance for a nap. Let’s talk about the nobel prizes in chemistry and medicine! All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] Artificial Neural Networks Learn Better When They Spend Time Not Learning at All

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On today’s episode: Robots will soon be taking over our universities… and mixing us margaritas. Cordyceps is a parasite that can control ants, but not by hijacking its brain. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] Robots will roam a university to study “a socio-technical problem”

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On today’s episode: Yeah, mosquitoes might really like you more. A blood test to screen for cancer can save lives! But could it cause more harm than good? All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] The Rockefeller University » Why some people are mosquito magnets

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On today’s episode: A warming world helps disease spread more quickly. Humans have waded into an ancient arms race to produce antibiotic resistant bacteria. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] Thawing permafrost exposes old pathogens—and new hosts

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On today’s episode: The same things that cause autoimmune diseases may have helped our ancestors survive the Black Death. It’s Halloween! Let’s talk about the science of why we like scary things! All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] Bubonic plague left lingering scars on the human genome

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On today’s episode: Artificial intelligence can mine our health data to save us from blood poisoning. And we investigate why we put lead in fuel, and why we finally stopped. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• [ARTICLE] New, transparent AI tool may help detect blood poisoning

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